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Physicians in the U.S. write more than 250 million prescriptions a year for opioid painkillers — and that’s not including all the painkiller prescriptions written for patients with cancer or acute/chronic pain. That’s enough for every adult in the U.S. to have their own bottle of pills. Meanwhile, every day more than 40 Americans die after overdosing on opioids.

The routine back operation Bob Deslauriers had in 1987 was supposed to fix damage wrought by a rugby-playing youth. Two decades after the fact, it nearly killed him.
The 58-year-old unknowingly received a tainted blood transfusion during the surgery, and 18 years later discovered the resulting hepatitis C infection had virtually destroyed his liver.

As opioid addiction continues to ravage large swaths of the country, doctors are being urged to prescribe fewer narcotic painkillers, putting pressure on drug companies to come up with new ways to treat pain patients.

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YouTube/FusionTerri Bryant was working at a cheese factory in 2000 when she injured the delicate, rubbery discs between her spinal bones.
That was the start of her chronic pain. Two years later, she had back surgery and started regularly taking fentanyl, a powerful prescription opioid medication.

Getty Images/Chip SomodevillaResearchers investigating the role of ion channels in shifting sodium from one sensory nerve to another have identified a drug that can treat people with congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP) - a rare condition that causes them to be physically incapable of feeling pain.